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Self-describing content-addressed identifiers for distributed systems
After numerous discussions at IPFS Thing I decided it’s time to pull the trigger on CIDv2. This isn’t the only PR we’ll need to do, but this should serve as...
It is a bit annoying that neither DID spec mentions CID in any way nor CID recognized DID existence. Would be nice to have something that describes similarities and differences...
The [CID Specification](https://github.com/multiformats/cid/blob/d394fdd49c568f055fb221160f7bbbd848480d47/README.md) refers to an encoding/decoding method "base58btc" but does not define what this method is. I suspect the intended meaning is "Base58 encoding as used by Bitcoin". It...
The [CID Decoding Algorithm](https://github.com/multiformats/cid/blob/ef1b2002394b15b1e6c26c30545fd485f2c4c138/README.md#decoding-algorithm) contains a step, "1. If it's a string (ASCII/UTF-8):". This is not sufficiently specified, and is subject to false positives. The first problem is the consequences...
This CID spec is a pretty old piece and language around some of the things has changed. For example `` would now be called something like ``.
_[This is a work-in-progress draft design which has been heavily edited since it was first published]_ This is an attempt at designing a highly flexible, yet compact, multipurpose container format...
Is there a canonical format for mapping IPFS identifiers into URLs ? We need to represent IPFS objects in applications, so that we can know to open them in IPFS...
In the current version of the spec a CID is defined as containing a multibase prefix. This doesn't align with the current understanding across the IPLD team. We regard a...
Please specify the project status. Is this a final specification? Right now if I am citing this I have to call it a "DRAFT" specification because nothing is said in...
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Self-describing content-addressed identifiers for distributed systems